July 17, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling for change at the United Nations in response to its systemic antisemitism and anti-Israel bias. Recent documents by the United Nations Human Rights Council and its Special Rapporteur ‘on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967’ have once again called into […]
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July 8, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – B’nai Brith Canada has filed a hate-crimes complaint with Peel Regional Police after protesters chanted hateful antisemitic slogans at an anti-Israel protest just west of Toronto. Last Saturday, about 100 protesters gathered at Celebration Square in downtown Mississauga, ostensibly to condemn Israel’s potential extension of sovereignty to communities east of the Green
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July 5, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on community members to take action against a Toronto establishment that has used antisemitic tropes and posted pro-terrorist content on social media. Foodbenders, located in the Bloordale neighbourhood of Toronto, has previously landed itself in hot water for proclaiming “F@ck the Police” on a
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June 23, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on York University to ensure that a lecturer who smeared this country’s Jewish community during a recent online panel be disqualified from teaching a human-rights course. SIGN OUR PETITION HERE Faisal Bhabha is an associate professor at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, where he teaches human
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Rhonda Lenton Office of the President 1050 Kaneff Tower 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Dear President and Vice-Chancellor Lenton, We, the undersigned, demand that Associate Professor Faisal Bhabha no longer teach any “human rights” courses at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. As you acknowledged in your letter of June 2, antisemitism remains a
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June 17, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Newly revealed police data shows that Jews were once again the most targeted group for hate crimes in both Toronto and York Region in 2019. These numbers are consistent with what was recently reported in B’nai Brith Canada’s 2019 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, which found an alarming 62.8 per cent
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June 11, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The publisher of a Polish-language news outlet has been arrested and released by Peel Regional Police following a complaint filed by B’nai Brith Canada over antisemitic content. In August, B’nai Brith exposed articles in Goniec, a Mississauga-based publication, in which Andrzej Kumor accused Jews and Zionists of having “terrorism in their
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May 27, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Ontario Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath has assured the Jewish community that an outspoken MPP from her party will cease his public praising of terrorist leaders. Joel Harden, NDP MPP for Ottawa Centre and the party’s Critic for Accessibility & Persons with Disabilities, Pensions and Seniors’ Affairs, hailed Khalida Jarrar on May
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May 26, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – Concerned over the rise in COVID-19-inspired antisemitism, B’nai Brith Canada is addressing disinformation and conspiracy theories directed at the Jewish community, and urging government leadership to take action against it. B’nai Brith has released a new policy paper, outlining how governments can address the growing issue of COVID-19-inspired antisemitism and disinformation
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May 28, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is shocked and appalled by the violation of a local synagogue, one of the worst such incidents to take place in Canada in years. On Wednesday, a congregant visited the Sepharade Kol Yehouda synagogue in Côte St-Luc, Que. with his son to retrieve ritual items for
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